Hey Bulia, I agree, its a pretty fundamental attribute, but more fundamental is that its still a gradient. The reason I'd put it there is so when someone drags the a vector meaning to define a linear when they have radial selected (or vice versa) you can with one click switch it over. To be honest, your probably your own worst enemy on this one bulia, if you hadnt got us used to instant access instant effect ui, we wouldnt expect it to do it, but you have, so we do :D Compared to the other toolbars having to change the setting and redraw the vector seems a lot less intuitive. I can see you dont percieve the use of being able to do it, but you've got 3 users already who expected it to, and wanted it to, so I expect if we leave it the way it is we'll have a few more who ask why its different.
From a detached hypothetical point of view, if you had just drawn the
vector but had the wrong type selected, bearing in mind the way we do the rest of our ui, what would you expect the behaviour to be?
Cheers
John
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:10:20 -0400, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:40:29 +0000, john cliff <john.cliff@...400...> wrote:
I'd have thought that for consistancy with the othertools (star/polygon is what springs to mind) that the linear/radial buttons should change selected gradients, or set defaults if no gradient selected.
The problem is, I just don't percieve linear/radial as a _property_ of a gradient that can be changed. To me these are just different kinds of gradients. So switching between them is, for me, about the same as "switching" a shape from star to spiral :)